Up to 18 students have been suspended from a Perth high school after a massive brawl broke out on school grounds and the footage was posted on YouTube.

Students involved in the fight at Churchlands Senior High School have been identified as a group of "troublemakers" recently expelled from local private schools.

A Year 11 student who had his nose broken during the fight told Radio 6PR the brawl was sparked by a confrontation over the weekend when Year 10 students had turned up uninvited to a Year 11 halloween party.

"Yesterday we went up to them to sort it out. Before I got a word in I got clipped in the nose ... It all got out of hand, everyone started fighting," the student said.

Mobile phone footage of the brawl, which has been uploaded to YouTube, shows several students fighting in small groups.

One teacher can be seen trying unsuccessfully to intervene before others come to his aid.

School principal Neil Hunt told the Nine Network former private school students kicked out for bad behaviour had started the fight.

"We ended up with four or five students who were excluded from local private schools, and they are part of this particular group," Mr Hunt said.

Students at the school said the troublemakers were a group of Year 10 students calling themselves "The Crew".

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So you move the problem from private schools to public schools?!Why does the public system have to deal with these thugs when the private sector has had enough??There is no doubt whatsoever that the advent of youtube and other 'social network' mediums have brough an escalation in youth violence & general bullying.Why are parents buying teenagers mobile phones that they don't even pay for themselves?!Seems to me it's the parents who cave into peer pressure most!Parents can deny it all they like but it is also the upbringing & parental decisions that leads to this type of behaviour.Tougher laws must be brought in to deal with 'underage' violence & behavioural issues.Parents,teachers,etc have no rights anymore to try to discipline children-the kids know their rights & they push every system to the limit knowing they'll get away with a slap on the wrist and they can do basically whatever they want.Our leaders and society as a whole needs to stand up and put an end to this-or at least try!

I would like to know who posed this question, because they're obviously an idiot. The issue is not it being posted for recognition, even if it was, you morons saw to its nationwide coverage. The issue is violence in schools and how to curb it. Stop pushing the internet discrimination, its getting old. The person who posted it was more the likely concerned. Grow up, the only reason camera-phones should be banned is so you merchants of mediocrity don't make any money from running the clip.

I seen a number of fights on phones in this area - it happens all the time at high school and even when we go to partys, then next thing you c it on the net on facebook.

I ,think that mobile phones should not have vidoes or camera on them as young people and the so young, use them for illegal usejust so they they can stir up trouble

Phones and cameras do not cause or promote fights, fights have been going on way before these were affordable, and more fights than there actually are now. The only difference is that cameras and camera phones allow adults and teachers to see the fights, and then assume that violence is increasing, when really it is just exposure that is increasing. The only thing that is different is that these can be put on you-tube now, and that degrades a schools reputation.

I hope that these students will be made an example of and ALL expelled or suspended. Something has to be done about violence in our schools, The Dept of Education has to step in and do something about it, it has to stop. When I was at school stuff like this never happend and if it did it was NOT on School grounds. If you needed to sort stuff out you did and it was between you and them not you, your freinds them and their freinds, It was one on one - and then when it was done you either became freinds or you just didn't talk - if things were only that simple again.

I think it shows just how unsafe schools really are, and why so many parents are choosing to home school. I pulled my 10 year old out from school because he said the wrong thing to wrong psycho child and the school pretty well did nothing. My child was forced to endure constant harrassment and bullying by this psycho and his mates. Maybe bullies and paychos should do community service instead of getting a weeks holiday at home. Principals are scared of bully parents, which is the main reason why this problem gets bigger. Maybe fining parents of psychos and bullies will help too, maybe it will encourage the parents of these kids to get them help, or at least make suspended students do community service whilst they are suspended. I am currently teaching 4 of my kids at home because of lack of safety in schools. I'm putting my kids back in to be bully fodder.

Nope. Fights have always happened for no real good reason where i went to high school. It's just the ease of documenting them & posting them for all to see that is starting to bring the violence to light. Just like the media bringing news of violence in the wars. Before the media it was left up to the imagination as to how bad it was for the people involved.

It's disgraceful and unrespectful I hope the goverment can see what's happenning to the future of Australia,they control our children instead of us,they say we are not allowed to do this and we are not allowed to do that to our own children, I think that all school should not allow camera phones and ipod in school time. I think that every school should have security to protect the kids and stop them from going out of school time. I feel sorry for teachers

Disgusting. I think YouTube should stop allowing all these violent acts to be shown on their website. It starts a trend that isn't going to stop anytime soon.

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